25/IV. 1921.

Comrade Ganetsky! Two of my secretaries are travelling to you in Riga:

1) Anna Petrovna Kizas and

2) Natalya Stepanovna Lepeshinskaya.

I have known both of them through their work for several years now. Their devotion is extraordinary. The work I give is backbreaking: no rest, no holidays. They are exhausted. They need a rest. I ask you to advance them their wages (and more generously) and then do not demand work from them. Let them recover, rest, and get properly fed.

Greetings! Your Lenin

First published 13 February 1924 in the newspaper *Pravda* No. 35

Printed from the manuscript